I second Plenty by Yolam Ottolenghi. I've had it for over a year and haven't made anything from it, eek!

As gorgeous as this book looks, I personally tend to shy away from vegetarian books. Sometimes it's very easy to veganize a recipe, but sometimes I feel like elements of the recipe are crucial to the overall flavor.

Do you find most would taste fine, veganized?

Flipping through this book again, it looks like it's maybe 25-30% vegan recipes. Lots of others that couldn't be veganized call for specific cheeses, feta, taleggio, etc. There are also a slew that call for Greek yogurt. I'm dabbling a lot in veganism at the moment (20 year veggie) and I don't know of a way to sub for that. Draining soy yogurt? Making your own? I see that So Delicious has a greek-style yogurt, but I haven't found that in my area.

The main reason I never have cooked from it is that it looks tremendously fussy with hard-to-find ingredients. :(

I have so many under-appreciated books (I find myself cooking from AFR week after week; it's my favorite). I have cooked from Vegan Eats World, Cookin' Crunk, and Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day and everything has been great, but I could spend a lot more time with these books. I would like to use these more than I have:Vegan Soul KitchenPapa Tofu Loves Ethiopian Food (intimidated by injera)Vegan Slow Cooker and Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cookerany of Dreena Burton's books ( I have 3 and never use them)Nut Butter UinverseVegan on the CheapWild About GreensVegan Indian CookingTess Challis's books

updatethere are now 29 titles with 3+ votes but i do need to remove 6 of those titles because they are terry/isa. we are most definitely having an isa/terry week so there is no need to vote on particular titles. sorry for any confusion!

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I also have Artisan Vegan Cheese and I need to use it more, but I'm not sure 2 weeks is enough to culture the cheeses. Perhaps it could be the last book in the challenge and participants could culture cheeses while all other challenges take place.

I also have Artisan Vegan Cheese and I need to use it more, but I'm not sure 2 weeks is enough to culture the cheeses. Perhaps it could be the last book in the challenge and participants could culture cheeses while all other challenges take place.

Great suggestion. I also proposed that we do a Artisan Vegan Cheese/Uncheese Cookbook combo week... not sure if bookwormbethie likes that idea or not, but it would give people the option of doing the fancy cultured cheeses and/OR the simpler, set in the fridge overnight-type recipes in Uncheese Cookbook.

Couldn't you though just use the 2 Isa/Terry books that have the most votes? Like if VEW has 13 votes and AFR has 10, but then VWAV only has 4, just leave it off? I would rather do one book per week instead of having to choose one myself, because I have decision issues, haha... But it's not that big of a deal. So pumped for this!

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I also have Artisan Vegan Cheese and I need to use it more, but I'm not sure 2 weeks is enough to culture the cheeses. Perhaps it could be the last book in the challenge and participants could culture cheeses while all other challenges take place.

Great suggestion. I also proposed that we do a Artisan Vegan Cheese/Uncheese Cookbook combo week... not sure if bookwormbethie likes that idea or not, but it would give people the option of doing the fancy cultured cheeses and/OR the simpler, set in the fridge overnight-type recipes in Uncheese Cookbook.

Maybe it would be a good idea for a themes cookbook challenge. I had mentioned on another page about doing a week for speciality diets but maybe the next cookbook challenge can be all themes...... so we could have something like: cheese books, gluten-free books, raw books, dessert books, lower fat books, etc.

I also have Artisan Vegan Cheese and I need to use it more, but I'm not sure 2 weeks is enough to culture the cheeses. Perhaps it could be the last book in the challenge and participants could culture cheeses while all other challenges take place.

Great suggestion. I also proposed that we do a Artisan Vegan Cheese/Uncheese Cookbook combo week... not sure if bookwormbethie likes that idea or not, but it would give people the option of doing the fancy cultured cheeses and/OR the simpler, set in the fridge overnight-type recipes in Uncheese Cookbook.

yes, limone, i have greatly appreciated all your wise and helpful advice during this process and indeed i have that combo week listed on my spreadsheet. with rhelune's "recomendation" above, that makes it have a tally of 4 :)

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I also have Artisan Vegan Cheese and I need to use it more, but I'm not sure 2 weeks is enough to culture the cheeses. Perhaps it could be the last book in the challenge and participants could culture cheeses while all other challenges take place.

Great suggestion. I also proposed that we do a Artisan Vegan Cheese/Uncheese Cookbook combo week... not sure if bookwormbethie likes that idea or not, but it would give people the option of doing the fancy cultured cheeses and/OR the simpler, set in the fridge overnight-type recipes in Uncheese Cookbook.

Maybe it would be a good idea for a themes cookbook challenge. I had mentioned on another page about doing a week for speciality diets but maybe the next cookbook challenge can be all themes...... so we could have something like: cheese books, gluten-free books, raw books, dessert books, lower fat books, etc.

a themed cookbook challenge would be soooo awesome and i really hope that you (or someone else) initiates that at some point! however, for now, i am going to leave the uncheese & artisian cheese cookbook combo on the list, let the masses decide when they vote ;)

p.s. edited to add, and yes it they become official challenge cookbooks, i'll have it be the last 2 weeks to allow for fermentation/development, etc......

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Couldn't you though just use the 2 Isa/Terry books that have the most votes? Like if VEW has 13 votes and AFR has 10, but then VWAV only has 4, just leave it off? I would rather do one book per week instead of having to choose one myself, because I have decision issues, haha... But it's not that big of a deal. So pumped for this!

i could do that, i'm a bit confused myself right now at how to best handle this. i feel so bad that i wasn't clear in my post about having a free isa/terry week. and i don't want the voting/poll situation to be confusing to everyone. i totally get you though, depending on the situation i can be very indecisive and love it when someone else makes all the decisions.

_________________"....but I finally found block tempeh a few weeks ago with the intent to give it my virginity." -Moon

now there are 31 cookbooks with over 3 recommendations. At this point I am going to ask for a halt to recommendations since the online poll I am using can only accept 30 options (ack!)

However, there are 6 Isa/Terry books in the top 31. I'm still not 100% sure about what to do about that because I do want to have an Isa/Terry week. Should I leave those 6 titles out of the voting? Or have a separate vote to choose a very specific isa/terry cookbook for that week? (fyi, VEW has the most recommendations of any cookbook on my list, it has 12)

_________________"....but I finally found block tempeh a few weeks ago with the intent to give it my virginity." -Moon

I would leave them off the general poll. I suppose if you had the initiative to do so, you could do an Isa/Terry poll to pick one specific winner and make that be a week, then a general poll for all the other books to pick 4-5 for that, and then still have an open choice Isa/Terry week as mentioned before because a lot of people would participate in that. That's probably what I would do because it would likely please the most people.

I reckon go for 6 challenges altogether. Start with an open Isa/Terry one because most people will have access to at least one book and then it gives times to prepare for the rest of the weeks then 6th challenge is the overall Isa/Terry winner from a separate poll.

got it, but what about VEW? that has 12 recommendations, the most out of any cookbook title, i am assuming that it will be voted in as a challenge cookbook regardless which voting poll VEW is included in. (although i could be wrong!)

should i include VEW with the general cookbook title voting or put VEW with all the isa/terry books?

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